Melissa N. Stein
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816673025
- eISBN:
- 9781452952437
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816673025.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
The introduction discusses pursuits of scientists from past to present to discover physical, biological differences between genders and races, and the effect that this has had on American society and ...
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The introduction discusses pursuits of scientists from past to present to discover physical, biological differences between genders and races, and the effect that this has had on American society and its perception of manhood.Less
The introduction discusses pursuits of scientists from past to present to discover physical, biological differences between genders and races, and the effect that this has had on American society and its perception of manhood.
Janet L. Lauritsen, Ekaterina Gorislavsky, and Karen Heimer
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814789308
- eISBN:
- 9780814760239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814789308.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Economic Sociology
This chapter examines the relationship between changing economic conditions and rates of serious violent victimization among adolescents and young adults between 1973 and 2005. The effects of ...
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This chapter examines the relationship between changing economic conditions and rates of serious violent victimization among adolescents and young adults between 1973 and 2005. The effects of unemployment, poverty, and consumer sentiment on rates of youth violence are compared by the gender and race-ethnicity of victims. The analysis reveals that increases in youth violence are generally associated with increases in poverty and growing consumer pessimism, but not with increases in unemployment. The effects of poverty and consumer sentiment, however, differ somewhat for males and females and youth of differing ages and race-ethnic groups. Like the previous results presented in this chapter, these findings indicate that the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and youth violence is not simple and is conditioned by the age, gender, and race-ethnicity of victims.Less
This chapter examines the relationship between changing economic conditions and rates of serious violent victimization among adolescents and young adults between 1973 and 2005. The effects of unemployment, poverty, and consumer sentiment on rates of youth violence are compared by the gender and race-ethnicity of victims. The analysis reveals that increases in youth violence are generally associated with increases in poverty and growing consumer pessimism, but not with increases in unemployment. The effects of poverty and consumer sentiment, however, differ somewhat for males and females and youth of differing ages and race-ethnic groups. Like the previous results presented in this chapter, these findings indicate that the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and youth violence is not simple and is conditioned by the age, gender, and race-ethnicity of victims.
Neil Blain and David Hutchison
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748627998
- eISBN:
- 9780748671205
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748627998.003.0013
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
The chapter begins by noting the complexities around usage of the terms race and ethnicity, observing the recent predominance of the latter, and also summarizes recent work on race and ethnicity in ...
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The chapter begins by noting the complexities around usage of the terms race and ethnicity, observing the recent predominance of the latter, and also summarizes recent work on race and ethnicity in the UK media. The chapter focuses especially on two instances of press coverage, a contested voluntary flight/abduction, and one of asylum and unrest in detention. Some difference in Scottish reporting from UK newspapers is observed, including over the role of the Dungavel detention centre. There then follows a detailed case study of a suicide at Harmondsworth detention centre including discourse analysis of coverage of Dungavel. A second case study of the 2006 Misbah Rana case further analyses Scottish press coverage, especially of contestation over whether the departure was or was not voluntary, often focusing on dispute over Misbah/Molly's name. Features of coverage such as metareporting and historicization are further examined.Less
The chapter begins by noting the complexities around usage of the terms race and ethnicity, observing the recent predominance of the latter, and also summarizes recent work on race and ethnicity in the UK media. The chapter focuses especially on two instances of press coverage, a contested voluntary flight/abduction, and one of asylum and unrest in detention. Some difference in Scottish reporting from UK newspapers is observed, including over the role of the Dungavel detention centre. There then follows a detailed case study of a suicide at Harmondsworth detention centre including discourse analysis of coverage of Dungavel. A second case study of the 2006 Misbah Rana case further analyses Scottish press coverage, especially of contestation over whether the departure was or was not voluntary, often focusing on dispute over Misbah/Molly's name. Features of coverage such as metareporting and historicization are further examined.
Nilanjana Dasgupta and Kumar Yogeeswaran
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199735204
- eISBN:
- 9780199894581
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199735204.003.0004
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
Although the 14th Amendment of the American Constitution grants citizenship to any person born or naturalized in the country, psychological research suggests that subjective perceptions of who is ...
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Although the 14th Amendment of the American Constitution grants citizenship to any person born or naturalized in the country, psychological research suggests that subjective perceptions of who is authentically American is driven by implicit assumptions about who seems typical. People implicitly consider Whites to be more authentically American than racial minorities. This chapter explores how implicit stereotypes about who is American influenced public opinion about Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential election. Data show that these implicit stereotypes evoke doubts about the patriotism of ethnic minorities which in turn promote job discrimination and rejection of public policies proposed by ethnic minorities especially when national security is salient. This chapter also identifies factors that expand vs. restrict people’s definition of who is American. Exposure to ethnic minorities engaged in national service expands the inclusiveness American identity whereas exposure to ethnic minorities who embrace their ethnic heritage restricts the definition of American.Less
Although the 14th Amendment of the American Constitution grants citizenship to any person born or naturalized in the country, psychological research suggests that subjective perceptions of who is authentically American is driven by implicit assumptions about who seems typical. People implicitly consider Whites to be more authentically American than racial minorities. This chapter explores how implicit stereotypes about who is American influenced public opinion about Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential election. Data show that these implicit stereotypes evoke doubts about the patriotism of ethnic minorities which in turn promote job discrimination and rejection of public policies proposed by ethnic minorities especially when national security is salient. This chapter also identifies factors that expand vs. restrict people’s definition of who is American. Exposure to ethnic minorities engaged in national service expands the inclusiveness American identity whereas exposure to ethnic minorities who embrace their ethnic heritage restricts the definition of American.
Renee M. Johnson, Sabriya Linton, Preben Bo Mortensen, Sari L. Reisner, Silvia Martins, and William W. Eaton
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- June 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190916602
- eISBN:
- 9780190916640
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190916602.003.0008
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
This chapter presents information about differences in risk for mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders across three demographic factors that are tied to social disadvantage: socioeconomic ...
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This chapter presents information about differences in risk for mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders across three demographic factors that are tied to social disadvantage: socioeconomic position, race/ethnicity, and sexual and gender minority status. It summarizes key results from studies of the general population, and presents information on prevalence and risk based on our analyses of national data sets. Systematic population subgroup differences exist. Persons in low socioeconomic position and sexual and gender minorities have higher odds of mental and behavioral disorders. Findings for racial/ethnic minorities were mixed. Although several studies showing that Black and Hispanic people have lower risk than Whites for mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders, research also shows that disorders among these groups are more severe and more persistent.Less
This chapter presents information about differences in risk for mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders across three demographic factors that are tied to social disadvantage: socioeconomic position, race/ethnicity, and sexual and gender minority status. It summarizes key results from studies of the general population, and presents information on prevalence and risk based on our analyses of national data sets. Systematic population subgroup differences exist. Persons in low socioeconomic position and sexual and gender minorities have higher odds of mental and behavioral disorders. Findings for racial/ethnic minorities were mixed. Although several studies showing that Black and Hispanic people have lower risk than Whites for mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders, research also shows that disorders among these groups are more severe and more persistent.
Melissa N. Stein
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816673025
- eISBN:
- 9781452952437
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816673025.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Chapter four argues that emasculation was central to scientific and popular discourse on lynching as well as its practice. For three decades, prominent U.S. physicians recommended surgical castration ...
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Chapter four argues that emasculation was central to scientific and popular discourse on lynching as well as its practice. For three decades, prominent U.S. physicians recommended surgical castration as an alternative to lynch violence. They lent scientific support for the "black rapist" trope, but positioned themselves as progressive reformers offering a medical solution.Less
Chapter four argues that emasculation was central to scientific and popular discourse on lynching as well as its practice. For three decades, prominent U.S. physicians recommended surgical castration as an alternative to lynch violence. They lent scientific support for the "black rapist" trope, but positioned themselves as progressive reformers offering a medical solution.
John Iceland
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520286900
- eISBN:
- 9780520961975
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520286900.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter discusses how different countries view race and ethnicity, including different approaches to conceptualizing and measuring racial and ethnic groups. It then examines racial and ethnic ...
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This chapter discusses how different countries view race and ethnicity, including different approaches to conceptualizing and measuring racial and ethnic groups. It then examines racial and ethnic inequality in various settings—focusing mainly (though note solely) on peer countries of the U.S. in the OECD as well as in Latin America. It ends with a discussion of policy responses to racial and ethnic diversity, including debates about multiculturalism vs. assimilation and about affirmative action. The goal of this chapter is to broaden our understanding of how different contexts shape patterns of racial and ethnic inequality, and thus to provide a global perspective to U.S. conversations about these issues.Less
This chapter discusses how different countries view race and ethnicity, including different approaches to conceptualizing and measuring racial and ethnic groups. It then examines racial and ethnic inequality in various settings—focusing mainly (though note solely) on peer countries of the U.S. in the OECD as well as in Latin America. It ends with a discussion of policy responses to racial and ethnic diversity, including debates about multiculturalism vs. assimilation and about affirmative action. The goal of this chapter is to broaden our understanding of how different contexts shape patterns of racial and ethnic inequality, and thus to provide a global perspective to U.S. conversations about these issues.
Lundy Braun
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816683574
- eISBN:
- 9781452949185
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816683574.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
The Epilogue brings the topic up to the present.
The Epilogue brings the topic up to the present.
Christine Scodari
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496817785
- eISBN:
- 9781496817822
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496817785.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
For over two decades, the media have chronicled escalating participation in family history prompted by, among other things, the aging of Baby Boomers and Generation Xers, the growing availability of ...
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For over two decades, the media have chronicled escalating participation in family history prompted by, among other things, the aging of Baby Boomers and Generation Xers, the growing availability of digital genealogy sites and archives, and a burgeoning interest in racial and ethnic history and culture of the sort inspired by the airing of the historical drama miniseries Roots forty years ago.
Alternate Roots is the first book to critically address a wide array of media-related institutions, texts, technologies, and practices of family history readily encountered in the new millennium, including genealogy-themed television series, books, documentaries, websites, family photos and civil records, social media interactions, genealogical institutions, “roots” tourism, and genetic ancestry testing services capitalizing on the 2003 mapping of the human genome. These objects of inquiry present unique and pressing issues for critical investigation in terms of economic and privacy concerns as well as ethnicity, race, and hybrid identities.
Judiciously interweaving her own genealogical journey involving ethnic, racial, classed, and gendered identities pertinent to her southern Italian and Italian American family history throughout the multifaceted examination of critical objects, Christine Scodari unearths pivot points of thought and action in the performance and representation of family history that can be adapted by others and facilitated by digital media. This alternate roots strategy, an expansive approach to family history, enables practitioners to venture beyond genetic definitions of kinship, their own ancestral history, and the struggles of those sharing their affiliations, and to interrogate genealogical media and related commodities and activities accordingly.Less
For over two decades, the media have chronicled escalating participation in family history prompted by, among other things, the aging of Baby Boomers and Generation Xers, the growing availability of digital genealogy sites and archives, and a burgeoning interest in racial and ethnic history and culture of the sort inspired by the airing of the historical drama miniseries Roots forty years ago.
Alternate Roots is the first book to critically address a wide array of media-related institutions, texts, technologies, and practices of family history readily encountered in the new millennium, including genealogy-themed television series, books, documentaries, websites, family photos and civil records, social media interactions, genealogical institutions, “roots” tourism, and genetic ancestry testing services capitalizing on the 2003 mapping of the human genome. These objects of inquiry present unique and pressing issues for critical investigation in terms of economic and privacy concerns as well as ethnicity, race, and hybrid identities.
Judiciously interweaving her own genealogical journey involving ethnic, racial, classed, and gendered identities pertinent to her southern Italian and Italian American family history throughout the multifaceted examination of critical objects, Christine Scodari unearths pivot points of thought and action in the performance and representation of family history that can be adapted by others and facilitated by digital media. This alternate roots strategy, an expansive approach to family history, enables practitioners to venture beyond genetic definitions of kinship, their own ancestral history, and the struggles of those sharing their affiliations, and to interrogate genealogical media and related commodities and activities accordingly.
Roberta Garner, Black Hawk Hancock, and Kenneth Fidel
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040597
- eISBN:
- 9780252099038
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040597.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
The chapter traces the dynamics of class and race-ethnicity in the Chicago metropolitan area, identifying persistent disparities and emergent features of stratification. The chapter begins with a ...
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The chapter traces the dynamics of class and race-ethnicity in the Chicago metropolitan area, identifying persistent disparities and emergent features of stratification. The chapter begins with a focus on the impact of de-industrialization and economic restructuring on African Americans whose disadvantaged position in terms of employment and education in the 20th century was exacerbated rather than mitigated by the decline of the “industrial city.” Immigrants occupy a wide range of class-positions, depending on country of origin and their education and class background in these countries. A major emerging phenomenon is the rise of a new white-collar working class of diverse ethno-racial backgrounds that has a blurred boundary with the “creative class.” A brief critique of public discourse about class and race closes the chapter.Less
The chapter traces the dynamics of class and race-ethnicity in the Chicago metropolitan area, identifying persistent disparities and emergent features of stratification. The chapter begins with a focus on the impact of de-industrialization and economic restructuring on African Americans whose disadvantaged position in terms of employment and education in the 20th century was exacerbated rather than mitigated by the decline of the “industrial city.” Immigrants occupy a wide range of class-positions, depending on country of origin and their education and class background in these countries. A major emerging phenomenon is the rise of a new white-collar working class of diverse ethno-racial backgrounds that has a blurred boundary with the “creative class.” A brief critique of public discourse about class and race closes the chapter.
Melissa N. Stein
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816673025
- eISBN:
- 9781452952437
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816673025.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Measuring Manhood describes how race became the purview of science and the processes by which race was constructed as a biological phenomenon with far-reaching social, cultural, and political ...
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Measuring Manhood describes how race became the purview of science and the processes by which race was constructed as a biological phenomenon with far-reaching social, cultural, and political resonance. It tells the story of an overlapping, interdisciplinary group of scientists who asserted their relevance and authority by offering expert advice America’s most pressing issues. These scientists often used gender and sex difference to conceptualize or buttress their claims about racial difference, but the mechanisms by which they did so constantly shifted according to what was at stake in that specific historical moment. Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, their conclusions about human difference naturalized socio-political difference—and hierarchy—in America. For these scientists, the physical body both reflected and determined the character of the social body. This book is also concerned with how the public received such ideas and how they shaped the way real people were treated. Accordingly, it examines a variety of sources, both textual and visual, to interrogate racial scientists’ engagement with social and political issues as well as the incursion of scientific thought into political culture.Less
Measuring Manhood describes how race became the purview of science and the processes by which race was constructed as a biological phenomenon with far-reaching social, cultural, and political resonance. It tells the story of an overlapping, interdisciplinary group of scientists who asserted their relevance and authority by offering expert advice America’s most pressing issues. These scientists often used gender and sex difference to conceptualize or buttress their claims about racial difference, but the mechanisms by which they did so constantly shifted according to what was at stake in that specific historical moment. Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, their conclusions about human difference naturalized socio-political difference—and hierarchy—in America. For these scientists, the physical body both reflected and determined the character of the social body. This book is also concerned with how the public received such ideas and how they shaped the way real people were treated. Accordingly, it examines a variety of sources, both textual and visual, to interrogate racial scientists’ engagement with social and political issues as well as the incursion of scientific thought into political culture.
Candyce Kroenke and Ichiro Kawachi
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- December 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190238667
- eISBN:
- 9780190238698
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190238667.003.0009
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Epidemiology, Public Health
The relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and cancer is complex, dynamic, and evolving. Associations depend on SES measures, cancer type, sociodemographic factors including race/ethnicity, ...
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The relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and cancer is complex, dynamic, and evolving. Associations depend on SES measures, cancer type, sociodemographic factors including race/ethnicity, and historical trends. However, socioeconomic disadvantage is often associated with a higher risk of cancer, particularly cancers diagnosed at a late stage, as well as worse prognosis once diagnosed. Research on secular trends over the past 70 years has shown reversals of the socioeconomic gradient for lung and colorectal cancer consistent with differential trends by SES in patterns of smoking, diet, and obesity. Rates of these cancers are now currently higher in socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. SES is considered to be a “fundamental” determinant of health outcomes, and this appears true throughout the cancer spectrum—from cancer incidence to detection, treatment, and survival. Investigations over the past decade have increasingly considered the simultaneous impact of individual SES and area-level SES (as a contextual influence) on health outcomes.Less
The relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and cancer is complex, dynamic, and evolving. Associations depend on SES measures, cancer type, sociodemographic factors including race/ethnicity, and historical trends. However, socioeconomic disadvantage is often associated with a higher risk of cancer, particularly cancers diagnosed at a late stage, as well as worse prognosis once diagnosed. Research on secular trends over the past 70 years has shown reversals of the socioeconomic gradient for lung and colorectal cancer consistent with differential trends by SES in patterns of smoking, diet, and obesity. Rates of these cancers are now currently higher in socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. SES is considered to be a “fundamental” determinant of health outcomes, and this appears true throughout the cancer spectrum—from cancer incidence to detection, treatment, and survival. Investigations over the past decade have increasingly considered the simultaneous impact of individual SES and area-level SES (as a contextual influence) on health outcomes.
Karen V. Hansen
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199746811
- eISBN:
- 9780199369478
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199746811.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Culture
This introduction appraises the processes underlying the historical encounter between immigrants and Indians in the early twentieth century. It brings into the same frame two dominant processes in ...
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This introduction appraises the processes underlying the historical encounter between immigrants and Indians in the early twentieth century. It brings into the same frame two dominant processes in U.S. history: the unceasing migration of people to North America, and the protracted dispossession of indigenous peoples who inhabited the continent. Although this historical encounter at Spirit Lake took place in a small corner of North Dakota, it encapsulates the story of conquest and white settlement and the less publicized but equally important story of the dispossession and survival of Native Americans. Here we confront the human face of expropriation: the land takers and the dispossessed. Further, the introduction probes the consequences of offering land to peasants from abroad in order to recruit laborers for the U.S.’s mission of expansion and development. Decades of living side by side created multiple and contradictory layers of conflict, adaptation, resistance, and mutuality within the social relationships on this land.Less
This introduction appraises the processes underlying the historical encounter between immigrants and Indians in the early twentieth century. It brings into the same frame two dominant processes in U.S. history: the unceasing migration of people to North America, and the protracted dispossession of indigenous peoples who inhabited the continent. Although this historical encounter at Spirit Lake took place in a small corner of North Dakota, it encapsulates the story of conquest and white settlement and the less publicized but equally important story of the dispossession and survival of Native Americans. Here we confront the human face of expropriation: the land takers and the dispossessed. Further, the introduction probes the consequences of offering land to peasants from abroad in order to recruit laborers for the U.S.’s mission of expansion and development. Decades of living side by side created multiple and contradictory layers of conflict, adaptation, resistance, and mutuality within the social relationships on this land.
Jennifer Beste
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- November 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190268503
- eISBN:
- 9780190268534
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190268503.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Student ethnographers describe contemporary college culture as encouraging a profound split in identity for students who wish to excel both academically and socially. During the day, college students ...
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Student ethnographers describe contemporary college culture as encouraging a profound split in identity for students who wish to excel both academically and socially. During the day, college students are responsible young adults who successfully manage the demands of classes, jobs, and extracurricular activities. On party nights, however, many adopt completely different personas and values, ones that find fun and relief from stress in carefree or reckless behavior that often involves binge drinking and hooking up. This chapter explores college students’ party personas by analyzing sober undergraduate ethnographers’ observations of their peers at parties. They describe what happens before, during, and after parties, and analyze variations in social interactions within and between various social groups based on gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.Less
Student ethnographers describe contemporary college culture as encouraging a profound split in identity for students who wish to excel both academically and socially. During the day, college students are responsible young adults who successfully manage the demands of classes, jobs, and extracurricular activities. On party nights, however, many adopt completely different personas and values, ones that find fun and relief from stress in carefree or reckless behavior that often involves binge drinking and hooking up. This chapter explores college students’ party personas by analyzing sober undergraduate ethnographers’ observations of their peers at parties. They describe what happens before, during, and after parties, and analyze variations in social interactions within and between various social groups based on gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.
Christine Scodari
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496817785
- eISBN:
- 9781496817822
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496817785.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
The introduction narrates the author’s experiences with and practices of family history that led to her decision to critically investigate genealogy media and culture from the perspective of race, ...
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The introduction narrates the author’s experiences with and practices of family history that led to her decision to critically investigate genealogy media and culture from the perspective of race, ethnicity, and intersected identities. It details the relevant research questions and critical objects, supplies theories and concepts appropriate to the task, outlines the methods used to examine associated institutions, media texts, and audiences/participatory cultures of genealogy, and previews upcoming chapters.Less
The introduction narrates the author’s experiences with and practices of family history that led to her decision to critically investigate genealogy media and culture from the perspective of race, ethnicity, and intersected identities. It details the relevant research questions and critical objects, supplies theories and concepts appropriate to the task, outlines the methods used to examine associated institutions, media texts, and audiences/participatory cultures of genealogy, and previews upcoming chapters.
Christine Scodari
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496817785
- eISBN:
- 9781496817822
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496817785.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
The third chapter interprets discourses of post-identity, race/ethnicity, and intersections with gender and class in terms of salient issues and historical contexts such as slavery, Jim Crow, ...
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The third chapter interprets discourses of post-identity, race/ethnicity, and intersections with gender and class in terms of salient issues and historical contexts such as slavery, Jim Crow, internment, and similar circumstances represented in 21st century family history TV and its reception. Reception is analyzed via ethnographic (including virtual-ethnographic) investigation. The chapter incorporates auto-ethnographic experiences and insights with regard to the processes, tools, and outcomes of genealogical practices, considering their bearing on the investigation’s critical trajectory, as well as the implications of racial, ethnic, and intersected modalities of identity as inferred from genealogical documents.Less
The third chapter interprets discourses of post-identity, race/ethnicity, and intersections with gender and class in terms of salient issues and historical contexts such as slavery, Jim Crow, internment, and similar circumstances represented in 21st century family history TV and its reception. Reception is analyzed via ethnographic (including virtual-ethnographic) investigation. The chapter incorporates auto-ethnographic experiences and insights with regard to the processes, tools, and outcomes of genealogical practices, considering their bearing on the investigation’s critical trajectory, as well as the implications of racial, ethnic, and intersected modalities of identity as inferred from genealogical documents.
Lundy Braun
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816683574
- eISBN:
- 9781452949185
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816683574.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
The spirometer is used routinely to diagnose respiratory disease in specialist and primary care settings, although most patients probably do not recognize the name of the device. An important feature ...
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The spirometer is used routinely to diagnose respiratory disease in specialist and primary care settings, although most patients probably do not recognize the name of the device. An important feature of spirometry is that numerical values produced with the device are routinely “corrected” for race and sometimes ethnicity. The “correction” factors for race and/or ethnicity are embedded seamlessly in the software and hardware of the spirometer, such that operators are generally unaware of the details of the correction process activated when they use the machine. The basis of this practice dates to Civil War anthropometrists and plantation physicians who reported lower lung capacity in blacks as compared to whites. This book explores the production of scientific ideas about the “vital capacity” of the lungs and social ideas about racial and ethnic difference from the mid-nineteenth century to the present through the mediating mechanisms of the spirometer. For reasons that this book examines, a century and a half of research investigations have converged on the idea that people labeled black – and most other groups worldwide – differ in the capacity of their lungs from people historically labeled white/European/Caucasian. Explanations for difference varies but notions of innate/genetic difference continue to shape the biomedical literature on lung capacity. If anything, the advent of genomics has brought a reinvigoration of ideas of innate difference in current research. Race correction continues to the present day.Less
The spirometer is used routinely to diagnose respiratory disease in specialist and primary care settings, although most patients probably do not recognize the name of the device. An important feature of spirometry is that numerical values produced with the device are routinely “corrected” for race and sometimes ethnicity. The “correction” factors for race and/or ethnicity are embedded seamlessly in the software and hardware of the spirometer, such that operators are generally unaware of the details of the correction process activated when they use the machine. The basis of this practice dates to Civil War anthropometrists and plantation physicians who reported lower lung capacity in blacks as compared to whites. This book explores the production of scientific ideas about the “vital capacity” of the lungs and social ideas about racial and ethnic difference from the mid-nineteenth century to the present through the mediating mechanisms of the spirometer. For reasons that this book examines, a century and a half of research investigations have converged on the idea that people labeled black – and most other groups worldwide – differ in the capacity of their lungs from people historically labeled white/European/Caucasian. Explanations for difference varies but notions of innate/genetic difference continue to shape the biomedical literature on lung capacity. If anything, the advent of genomics has brought a reinvigoration of ideas of innate difference in current research. Race correction continues to the present day.
Florence E. Babb
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780520298163
- eISBN:
- 9780520970410
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520298163.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
Florence E. Babb’s Women’s Place in the Andes draws on long-term anthropological research to develop an analytical framework for reexamining the accumulated research of several decades—her own and ...
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Florence E. Babb’s Women’s Place in the Andes draws on long-term anthropological research to develop an analytical framework for reexamining the accumulated research of several decades—her own and that of others—on the complex and often ambiguous interworkings of gender, race, and indigeneity in Andean Peru. She deftly interweaves five new analytical chapters with six of her previously published works that exemplify changing currents in feminist and anthropological thought. She contends that discussion of ethnic and racial inequality in Peru has largely overlooked gender differences and draws on decolonial feminism to redress this problem and offer fresh new insights. She starts from the proposition that Euro-American categories of analysis are not sufficient to shed light on intercultural differences in the past and present context of exclusionary practices in Peru. Instead, she looks to the global South to find inspiration and tools for rethinking intersecting inequalities in relation to her ethnographic work. What emerges is a deeper understanding of the iconic Andean women—who are subjects of both national pride and everyday scorn and neglect—and of gender and race more broadly in Latin America.Less
Florence E. Babb’s Women’s Place in the Andes draws on long-term anthropological research to develop an analytical framework for reexamining the accumulated research of several decades—her own and that of others—on the complex and often ambiguous interworkings of gender, race, and indigeneity in Andean Peru. She deftly interweaves five new analytical chapters with six of her previously published works that exemplify changing currents in feminist and anthropological thought. She contends that discussion of ethnic and racial inequality in Peru has largely overlooked gender differences and draws on decolonial feminism to redress this problem and offer fresh new insights. She starts from the proposition that Euro-American categories of analysis are not sufficient to shed light on intercultural differences in the past and present context of exclusionary practices in Peru. Instead, she looks to the global South to find inspiration and tools for rethinking intersecting inequalities in relation to her ethnographic work. What emerges is a deeper understanding of the iconic Andean women—who are subjects of both national pride and everyday scorn and neglect—and of gender and race more broadly in Latin America.
Sarah Cote Hampson
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199314171
- eISBN:
- 9780190275099
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199314171.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter uses data from the 2008 American National Election Studies (ANES) time series and the 2008 ANES panel wave to assess intragroup emotion and symbolic empowerment between and among women ...
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This chapter uses data from the 2008 American National Election Studies (ANES) time series and the 2008 ANES panel wave to assess intragroup emotion and symbolic empowerment between and among women voters by race and ethnicity. The chapter asks the following questions: Were women who felt especially warm toward Clinton more likely to vote in the Democratic primaries? Were women who indicated that Clinton made them feel “prideful” more likely to engage in political talk during the primaries and express an intention to vote in the general election? Did Clinton's mobilizing effect vary by race and ethnicity among women?Less
This chapter uses data from the 2008 American National Election Studies (ANES) time series and the 2008 ANES panel wave to assess intragroup emotion and symbolic empowerment between and among women voters by race and ethnicity. The chapter asks the following questions: Were women who felt especially warm toward Clinton more likely to vote in the Democratic primaries? Were women who indicated that Clinton made them feel “prideful” more likely to engage in political talk during the primaries and express an intention to vote in the general election? Did Clinton's mobilizing effect vary by race and ethnicity among women?
Paul Julian Smith
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781781383247
- eISBN:
- 9781786944054
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781383247.003.0008
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Television
Chapter 7 enlarges the focus on gender and sexual politics to embrace race and ethnicity. Beginning with a historical account of the complex representation of race in Mexican visual culture ...
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Chapter 7 enlarges the focus on gender and sexual politics to embrace race and ethnicity. Beginning with a historical account of the complex representation of race in Mexican visual culture (painting, film, and TV), it goes on treat a unique example of a series focusing on that repressed subject. Shot and set in a working class barrio of Mexico City, this series charts the troubled consequences of ethnic mixing in Mexico, presenting little seen (and heard) indigenous characters of different kinds and enlarging its focus to embrace local Jews, Basques, and working-class transvestites. Race, gender, religion, and social class are thus cut and shuffled in this invaluable drama.Less
Chapter 7 enlarges the focus on gender and sexual politics to embrace race and ethnicity. Beginning with a historical account of the complex representation of race in Mexican visual culture (painting, film, and TV), it goes on treat a unique example of a series focusing on that repressed subject. Shot and set in a working class barrio of Mexico City, this series charts the troubled consequences of ethnic mixing in Mexico, presenting little seen (and heard) indigenous characters of different kinds and enlarging its focus to embrace local Jews, Basques, and working-class transvestites. Race, gender, religion, and social class are thus cut and shuffled in this invaluable drama.
